Word: cornucopias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Hunt is optimistic--and with reason. A corps of 11 letter winners is returning, bolstered by a cornucopia of talented freshmen...
...President Carter if he should cut off grain shipments, as he could do under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Cries of "Food for crude!" are starting to be heard. The White House, however, has no present intention of halting food supplies. If the U.S. later plugs up this cornucopia, Iran will be less vulnerable than it once was. As a Persian grain trader says, "We are earning $24 billion a year from oil. We can buy food any place we want...
...origin of its name is obscure, possibly tracing to one of the British kings of colonial times. But its status is clear: it is one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Located in a West Virginia-sized patch of the Atlantic continental shelf, it harbors a cornucopia of yellowtail, cod and haddock, lobsters and scallops, swordfish and squid-some 200 species in all. Supporting a $1 billion a year fishing industry, it provides 17% of America's saltwater catch, 14% of the world...
...pans, jewelry, evening dresses and even slabs of sirloin steak. Displayed at specially constructed counters were some 8,000 items of U.S. goods from 145 companies. For the next two months, Boatique America will be a floating U.S. trade fair as it visits 13 different Japanese ports, selling a cornucopia of wares at prices that are bargain-basement by Japanese standards. The goal is not so much to make a quick killing as to introduce American goods to the Japanese people...
...look back on the 1970s as the good old days. The economy's most disruptive decade since the Great Depression has borne the stagflation contradiction of no growth amid rampaging inflation, the can't do trauma of receding productivity in the nation that was long the world's cornucopia, the reality of an energy shortage in the land of supposedly boundless resources, and the debauch of a dollar that once was "as good as gold...